Unions

To mark 15th anniversary of Vietnam Family Day the Labor Federation in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday held a meeting titled “ Family is fulcrum” which also honored 62 exemplary families of state employees.

Strikes halved French train services on Thursday but attempts by the militant CGT union to broaden protests against labor reforms to air traffic control and the Paris underground ahead of a European soccer tournament appeared to have failed.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls is determined not to join a long list of politicians who have conceded defeat to protesters, he told the Journal Du Dimanche (JDD) newspaper, as the government prepares to dig in its heels on labor reform.

President Francois Hollande warned anti-reform protesters that he would not let them strangle the economy as a stand-off with unions deepens. But despite waves of strikes and demonstrations, French households are finally turning more optimistic as consumer confidence surged to its highest level since October 2007.

Strikes by French railway and port workers halved train services and prompted cancellation of ferry links to Britain on Wednesday as labor unions sought to force President Francois Hollande's government into retreat on labor law reforms.

A well-equipped clinic, built on monetary contributions by workers across Vietnam, has been inaugurated on Song Tu Tay Island, part of the country’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago in the East Vietnam Sea.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Saturday held dialogue with some 3,000 workers in the southern province of Dong Nai to seek their opinions for the Government to perfect policies in order to ensure better life of the working class.

Workers at industrial zones nation-wide put a lot of hopes and wishes on the improvement of their living and working conditions ahead of upcoming meeting between Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and labourers.